Village Builders in Creemore has been in the construction business for over 30 years. We build custom homes and specialize in renovations and additions.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Painting evolutions in custom home building

Modern Day Construction for custom homes Part 5

In today’s modern world of construction things are changing
year to year faster than they did decade to decade in any other previous time
period. In this multi part series I will traverse through an entire house
starting with the foundation and working my way up to the roof and then to the
finishing’s. I will explain what has changed in the last twenty years in custom
home building.

One thing that you should be able to take away from this is
how important it is to not just hire the right general contractor to build your
custom home but how important it is to hire one that is up on today’s building
methods.

Here are some changes that have come along in the last 20
years alone;

Painting

Twenty years ago, most paint was the same, it just depended
on how many coats you wanted to apply and the colour you wanted.

Today paint has reached a whole different level. The most
popular paint now is LoVo paint. That means that the paint is made so that
there is no chemical off-gassing. There are a lot of paints that are now environmentally
friendly not just LoVo. LoVo stands for Low Volatile Organic Compounds; this
basically means that there is little or no off gassing of harmful chemicals
into the air inside and outside of your home. This is good for the air quality
in your new home and the overall environment outside of your home.

Paint can be bought at such a high quality now that a lot of
times you only have to apply one coat to change the colour of a wall, as long
as the existing colour is not to dark or bold.

There are now specific paint for specific rooms in the
house. For example; there is paint that is made just for bathrooms. It has been
engineered to withstand moisture and eliminate the growth of mold and mildew.
This will help eliminate paint cracking and peeling because of high moisture
from showers in the bathrooms.

Other wall treatments that have made significant strides in
the last two decades are things like wallpaper and boarders. Wallpaper now
comes with the glue already applied. All you have to do is wet it and apply it
to the wall. The imagery on wallpaper and borders is impressive as well with
most pictures and scenes looking like they came right out of a movie. Wallpaper
scenes that stretch across an entire wall almost look seamless today and the
choices have grown exponentially with all genres being available.

Most custom painting is still applied the same way that it
was two decades ago with painters rolling it on and doing detail work by hand.
Most primer though is applied by sprayer, allowing a painting contractor the ability
to prime a whole house in a single day.

The amount of companies that are making paint today and the wide
variety of different colours and types that you can buy are almost mind
boggling. It is very easy to be overwhelmed with paint choices in today’s
marketplace.

Custom homes are still primed and then painted with at least
2 coats of paint, usually when dealing with a higher upscale clientele there
ends up being 3 coats to help give the home that deep rich colour feeling.